Metaprogramming

Metaprogramming. Creation of programs which in their turn create other programs as the result of their work, or change or amend themselves during execution. An example of metaprogramming: a C++ program generates SQL script to save data into a relational database. We can speak of two types of metaprogramming: metaprogramming on the stage of compilation (code generation) and metaprogramming on the stage of execution (code self-modification).

References

• Wikipedia. "Metaprogramming"
• David Abrahams, Aleksey Gurtovoy. C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond. Addison Wesley, 2005, ISBN: 0321227255

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